Bod-Inc: M-197
Merlinus, Jacobus
Invectiva in Faustum Balbi calumniatorem.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r M[erlinus], J[acobus]: Invectiva in Faustum Balbi calumniatorem. Incipit: ‘[D]ecreueram viri doctissimi ab his concertationibus . . .’ Explicit: elucescat scintilla The text by one ‘I.M.' attacks Publius Faustus Andrelinus and his De fuga Balbi; it was attributed to Jacobus Merlinus by A. Renaudet, Préréforme et humanisme à Paris pendant les premières guerres d'Italie, 1494-1517, Bibliothèque elzévirienne, nouv. sér. Études et documents (Paris, 1953), 123-4.
a7v [Verse addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Si quibus inuisi displicent nomina Fausti | Et tumor, et techne, verbaque supposita'; 3 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: [Paris: Étienne Jehannot or Pierre Le Dru, c.1494-5]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a8.
References
ISTC: im00498900
Hain: C 802; R 223;
BMC: BMC VIII 198;
Proctor: Pr 8354;
Others: CIBN M‑303; Hillard 1370; Oates 3145; Polain 2043 (var.); Sheppard 6489-90.
LCN: 14479221
Copies
Copy number: M-197(1)
Bound with A‑274; see there for details of binding and provenance.
Size of leaf: 196 × 130 mm.
The issue described by Polain: a7v, last line of verse: ‘Hunc compenſabit holus inunctus ſemel'.
Provenance: No. 181 in Bywater, Elenchus.
SHELFMARK: Byw. J 4.21(5).
Copy number: M-197(2)
Bound with A‑139; see there for details of binding and provenance.
Size of leaf: 190 × 125 mm.
Wanting a1, supplied in photostat from the copy in the British Library, and the blank leaf a8.
The issue described by Polain: a7v, last line of verse: ‘Hunc compenſabit holus inunctus ſemel'.
SHELFMARK: Douce O 126(4).
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